Port Maquarrie, N.S.W., Australia

Summary:

strange shooting stars.

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

They looekd like shooting stars but slightly brighter and were traveling extremely fast, judgeing by the disstance and the time they took to cover the distance that is.

Size of Object(s)

hard to say

Distance to
Object(s) & Altitude

they apeared to be quite a long way away.

Description of Area / Surroundings

On a warf fishing near a car ferry on the Hastings River Port Macquarrie, Near the Marintime boat museum there.

Full Description & Details

Was fishing with a friend in hastings river estuary and, it was about 2am. I was looking at the stars, was an exceptionaly clear evening with no breeze. I noticed quite a lot of shooting stars in the sky that night but there were 3 that caught my attension the most. First 1 flew at a very fast velocity from east to west from what seemed the horizon from the east to the western horizon, I have seen many sattelites and they move across the sky much slower than this object. Then about 5 minutes or so latter I seen 2 shooting star like objects going from the eastern horrizon but going strait up into what looked like space they were also travelling at a very fast velocity. They caught my attension because I have been star gazing for most of my life and never seen shooting stars move at these velocities or in these directions before. Nor have I ever seen a shooting star travel so far without burning up. The only reason I am reporting this is because I was reading some of the other decriptions here and felt I had to share this. If they were UFO's I can not say but I have never seen shooting stars do what these 3 shooting stars done on that night. Nearly all shooting stars I have seen in the past have had a downward trajectory, 2 definatly went strait up.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

they were not stars planets or anything or planes or sattelites they looked like a bright shooting star defying what I see as normal behaviour.

Witness Background

I am an electrical engineer, draftsman, and keen radio operator. I am semi retired and spend my time persuing my hobies.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I have been studying this phenomonen for many years now and this was my first sighting, at first I did not thingk too much about it but as time went by I could not help but wonder about the behaviour of these 3 objects

Other Comments

I do not suffer from any kind of mental dissorder. I am an electrical engineer, I was not intoxicated at the time. I do not beleive them to be a halucination.